美联社新闻一分钟 2007-03-09（在线收听）

1. Eight children and one adult are dead after a fire tore through a three-storey house in the Bronx. The victims were all relatives who immigrated to the U.S. from West Africa. The fire has been blamed on a space heater or an overloaded power strip.

2. House Democrats want a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. The plan would require all combat troops to be out of Iraq by fall of next year.

3. Police say two baggage handlers at the Orlando airport brought a bag containing guns and drugs onto a plane bound for Puerto Rico. The men used their airport identification cards to bypass security screeners. Authorities arrested one of the men in Puerto Rico, the second in Florida.

4. An 840-pound Mexican man has left his home for the first time in five years. Manuel Uribe was rolled through the streets of Monterrey, Mexico on an iron bed with wheels as a crowd cheered him on. Uribe's outing was a celebration of his nearly 400-pound weight loss.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. cheer on: phrase
When you cheer someone on, you shout loudly in order to encourage them, for example when they are taking part in a game.